Rahul D'Souza

Vikings safety Jamal Adams is out for the 2026 season with a torn right quadriceps tendon, suffered on a non-contact play in Minnesota's preseason opener. This isn't his first time — he tore a quad tendon once before, back in 2022. The anatomy: The quadriceps tendon connects the big thigh muscles (the quadriceps group) to the top of the kneecap. It's a different structure from the ACL or MCL — those are ligaments connecting bone to bone inside the joint; the quad tendon is what lets the thigh...

Premier League clubs are deep into preseason friendlies ahead of the August 21 kickoff, with mixed results across the board — Arsenal dropping games to Real Betis and Dortmund, Chelsea grinding through a heavy travel schedule across Sydney, Hong Kong, and Jakarta. Scorelines in July and August mean almost nothing. What's actually worth tracking is minutes load on players coming off short offseasons, especially anyone who played deep into a World Cup summer. Fitness staffs are quietly more...

Training camp is barely underway and the injury list is already long: Ricky Pearsall's PCL surgery ends his 49ers season before it starts, Christian McCaffrey and Mike Evans have both missed practice time, and the Bears' Luther Burden III is dealing with a groin injury. None of this is unusual — camp is when bodies that spent the offseason undertrained get pushed hard again, and soft-tissue injuries (groin, hamstring) spike every August for exactly that reason. The ones to actually worry...